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BLOCK INDEX 



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TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY. 



55 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. 



26 COURT STREET, BROOKLYN, 



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7COPYMGllTED 1891, BY THE TlTI.E GDARANTEE AND TlUST CoMI'ANY. 



POINTS ABOUT OUR SEARCHES. 



Fiist. — Skeleton (.huiii of titlr in twenty-four hours. 

Second. — Full guaranteed search in three days, 

Thitd. — No lis pendens returned which does not affect the property searched against. On all 

searches made by others five cents are charged for each return, and every lis pendens 

is returned against every name though there may he hundreds of them and not one 

affecting the property.* 
Fourth. — All tax searches have the bills for unpaid taxes, assessments or water-rates attached. 
Fifth. — A fixed price for the information and blanket searches. On short period searches an 

exact estimate of the price will be given. 
Sixth. — Additional instruments returned affecting the premises whether made by parties searched 

against or not. 
Seventh. — Search guaranteed to lawyer or client or both. 
Eighth. — No charge for one or more continuations of blanket search made within ten days of date 

of guarantee. 
Ninth. — No names needed on information search. / 

Tciith. — Names, but no separate periods, needed on blanket search. In this search the lawyer 

gets in reality a full Register's and County Clerk's search against each name for the 

whole period. He also gets an unlimited tax search. 
Eleventh. — In short period searches, names and periods are given, but the cost is one-half of the 

official fee and at least twenty per cent, less than the cokt of any searches made by others. 
Twelfth. — Judgment and tax searches are made for seventy per cent, of the official fee. 

*One lis pendens may be returned twenty times if there are twenty defendants' names on the search, at a cost to you 
of five cents for each return, or one dollar for the single lis pendens returned twenty times. 

SEND FOR BLANKS TO THE 

TITLE GUARANTEE & TRUST CO. 

No. 55 Liberty Street, New York. No. 26 Court Street, Brooklyn, 



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TO THE 



BLOCK INDEX 



TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY. 



y <^| 55 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. 

26 COURT STREET, BROOKLYN. , 



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COPTKIGHTED 1891, BY THE TITLE GDARANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY. 



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TAX REGISTRATION. 



The Title Guarantee and Trust Company has succeeded in making a very accurate tax 
plant on a plan similar to that followed in their locality index of conveyances and mortgages. 

This enables the Company to furnish a tax search which is far more accurate, and at the 
same time much less expensive, than that under any previous system of tax searching. 

The Company has now arranged for the registration, on their books, of any piece of property 
in the City, and when this is done the Company agrees to furnish, annually, a search showing all 
taxes, assessments and Croton water charges that have been put upon the property for the year, 
together with the proper bills, which, before delivery, are also verified by the Company's agents. 
This avoids the inconvenience of making a personal application at the Tax Ofifice for bills 
and the anxiety that one naturally has to know whether the bills so furnished are correct, 
and also the disgust with which one generally learns of an assessment a year after it has been 
levied and interest has begun to run on it. 

Our charges for the above services are as follows : 

For registering a single lot on our books and making full search from the first of the 
preceding September, and obtaining correct bills and notifying of all assessments, taxes or Croton 
water charges which may become liens upon said lot within one year from said first of September, 
and in addition to the above, attending to the payment of any such liens, . . $2.00 

For an annual repetition of said services, . . . . . . . . 2.00 

Our fee for searching for back taxes is as follows : 

One lot for one year, . . . . . . . , . . . . 1.50 

One lot for an unlimited period, ..,..,.... 7.50 

and a proportionate rate for any number of years over one and under twenty. 

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The Title Guarantee and Trust Company has had prepared for its own use and that of the 
lawyers of the City of New York, the following simple and comprehensive Key to the Block Index 
System, which went into force in this city on the first day of January, 1891. 

Everything that is of importance in the large published maps, will be found in this little 
book. 

There will also be found the divisions of the city into wards, and for greater accuracy, 
opportunity has been taken to describe the different wards according to their street boundaries. 

The maps used were especially made for this Company, and it is well to note that those on 
pages I to 25 inclusive, are photographed from maps drawn on a scale of 400 feet to the inch, 
while those on pages 26 to 30 inclusive, are photographed from maps drawn on a scale of 600 feet 
to the inch. 



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SECTIONS AND BLOCKS. 



The following shows the correct number of blocks contained in each section 
according to The Land Map of the City of New York : 

SECTION. BLOCKS. 

1 1 to 315 inclusive. 



2 


316 


' 660 


3 


661 ' 


' 992 


4 


993 ' 


' 1256 


5 


1257 ' 


• 1592 


6 


1593 


' 1819 


7 


1820 ' 


' 2104 


8 


2105 ' 


' 2259 


9 


2260 ' 


' 2542 


10 


2543 ' 


' 2781 


11 


2782 ' 


' 3245 


12 


3246 ' 


' 3401 


13 


3402 ' 


' 3428 



The Title Guarantee and Trust Company includes among other returns the correct 
section and block stamjDed on the face of the search without extra charge. 



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Blocks 1257 ^» J 592 ARE IN SECTION 5. 



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1900 



Blocks 1820" 2104 ARE IN SECTION 7. 

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Blocks 1593 "> 18 r 9 aretin SECTION 6. 



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Blocks i593''» i8I9 are: in SECTION 6 . 

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SEEPAGE la 

Blocks 2105" 2259 ARE IN SECTION 8. 



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Blocks 2105" 2259 ARE IN SECTION 8. 



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Blocks 2260 T. 2542 ARE IN SECTION 9 



PAGE 18 




Blocks 2543-2781 
ar:iim 
SECTION 10. 



PAGE 19 

SEEPAGE 23 



SEEPAGE 22 




Blocks 226O" 2542 are in SECTION 9. 

2782 -3245 - II. 



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SrEP*GE 23 




Blocks 2543" 2781 are in SECTION 10. 

2782-3245 •• " II. 



Blocks 2543-0 278I are in SECTION 10. 



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Blocks 2782" 3245are: in SECTION II. 



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Blocks 2782" 3245 ARE IN SECTION II. 



PAGE 26 



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Blocks 3402" 3428 ARE IN SECTION 13. 



PAGE 27 



VAN CORTLANDT PARK 



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Blocks 3246t. 3401 are in SECTION 12. 



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Blocks 3402" 3428 ARE IN SECTION 13. 



PAGE 30 




Blocks 3246to 3401 
ARE IN SECTION 12 



SEE mOE 28 



BLANKET SEARCH. 



Our Blanket Search gives an unlimited tax search and full searches in all the offices 
against each name. 

Our fee in New York County is $15.00 plus 50 cents a year. In Kings County 
$10.00 plus 40 cents a year. 

For instance, a blanket search against one lot from 1865, including an unlimited tax 
search, and full searches against nine names in all the offices will cost $27.50 in New York 
County, and $20.00 in Kings County. 

The name Blanket Search accurately expresses the difference between this search and 
all other kinds of searches. It can be made only by a Locality Index such as this 
Company alone possesses. The use of the term applied to any other search is a misnomer. 
The particular distinction of our Blanket Search is a complete locality search against the 
property and at the same time a search against each name for the entire period covered by 
the search. Only such lis pendens as affect the property are returned. 



SEND KOR BLANKS. 



WARDS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

I St Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, East River, Liberty Street and Maiden Lane. 

2nd Ward : 

Bounded by the East River, Maiden Lane, Liberty Street, Broadway, Park Row, 
Spruce Street, Ferry Street and Peck Slip. 

3rd Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, Liberty Street, Broadway and Reade Street. 

4th Ward: 

Bounded by the East River, Peck SHp, Ferry Street, Spruce Street, Park Row, 
Chatham Street and Catharine Street. 

5th Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, Reade Street, Broadway and Canal Street. 

6th Ward : 

Bounded by Broadway, Park Row, Chatham Street, the Bowery and Canal Street. 

7th Ward: 

Bounded by the East River, Catharine Street, Division Street and Grand Street 

8th Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, Canal Street, Broadway and West Houston Street. 

9th Ward: 

Bounded by the Hudson River, West Houston Street, Hancock Street, Bleecker 
Street, Carmine Street, Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. 

loth Ward : 

Bounded by the Bowery, Division Street, Norfolk Street and Rivington Street. 

nth Ward: 

Bounded by the East River, Rivington Street, Clinton Street, Avenue B, and 
14th Street. 

1 2th Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, 86th Street, Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil 
Creek. 



WARDS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



13th Ward : 

Bounded by the East River, Grand Street, Division Street, Norfolk Street and 
Rivington Street. 

14th Ward : , 

Bounded by Broadway, Canal Street, the Bowery and Houston Street. 

15th Ward : 

Bounded by the Bowery, Houston Street, Hancock Street, Bleecker Street, Carmine 
Street, Sixth Avenue, 14th Street and Fourth Avenue. 

1 6th Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, 14th Street, Sixth Avenue and 26th Street. 

17th Ward : 

Bounded by Fourth Avenue, the Bowery, Rivington Street, Clinton Street, 
Avenue B and 14th Street. 

i8th Ward: 

Bounded by the East River, 14th Street, Sixth Avenue and 26th Street. 

19th Ward : 

Bounded by the East River, 40th Street, Sixth Avenue and 86th Street. 

20th Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, 26th Street, Sixth Avenue and 40th Street. 

2 1 St Ward : 

Bounded by the East River, 26th Street, Sixth Avenue and 40th Street. 

22nd Ward : 

Bounded by the Hudson River, 40th Street, Sixth Avenue and 86th Street. 

23rd and 24th Wards include all between the Harlem River and the Bronx River and the 
Hudson River and the city line of Yonkcrs. 



INFORMATION SEARCH. 

The Information Search covers as many years as may be desired, each year costing ten 
cents. It gives any conveyance which the locality index contains, affecting the property. It has 
been found very useful in bringing out the early title, and indispensable where you cannot obtain 
an abstract, and very comforting as an extra precaution against double chains of title and other 
pitfalls where you have full name searches and abstract. 

Made against any lot whether previously examined or not. 

There is an initial fee of two dollars, with a charge of ten cents a year for the period 
covered ; for instance : 

One year, $2.10 

Ten years, - - 3.00 

One hundred years, .... 12.00 

No names needed, simply a diagram of the property. Frequently the street number is 
sufficient. One-half of this fee is rebated if you put in your regular searches to us for the same 
period, and for a shorter period a proportionate rebate. 

SEND KOR SEARCH BLANKS. 



PRESENT OWNER. 

The Title Guarantee and Trust Company also furnishes, upon a half hour's notice, the last 
recorded conveyance of any piece of property in the City of New York, giving the particulars as 
to the date of the instrument and the date of record thereof and the name of the grantee therein, 
and the liber and page where the same is recorded, and also the consideration mentioned in said 
conveyance; and, in addition to the above, an accurate diagram is given of the property conveyed. 

For this service a charge of 50 cents is made for each conveyance given. 

This branch of our work is not generally known to the Bar of the City, and we take this 
opportunity of calling attention to what has proved to many a great convenience. 



SHORT PERIOD SEARCH. 



For any kind of partial or short searclies or for full searches for a short time. 

COMPRISES. OFFICIAL FEE. OUR FEE. 

Register's Office, - - - - 15 cents each name, each year. 1 

(If wantrtl within 15 tlays, 22^ cents each name, each year.) )■ yi o{ official fee. 

10 cents each return, 38 cents signing and sealing. J 

County Clerk's Office, - - - ' 30 cents each name, each year. 
{\{ wanted within ten days, 45 cents each name, each year.) 
Five cents each return including /is peudens not aftecting, 

25 cents signing and sealing. 



- 1/4 of official fee. 



J 



Loan Commissioner's Office, 



50 cents each for first two names. 
25 cents each additional name. 



W of official fee. 



Comptroller, 50 cents, 

Tax (unlimited), $11.00 

Proportionate rate for limited period. 



25 cents. 
$7-50 



County Clerk's Judgment, - id rents each year, (\a(:h name. 

(If wanted within ten days, 15 cents each year, each name.) ^ 70 per cent, of official fee. 

5 cents each return. J 



U. S. Circuit Ci)urt, 



U. S. District Court, 



75 cents for first name. 



L, 



15 cents each additional name. \ ' 



o per cent, of official fee. 



75 cents for first name. 

15 cents each additional name. 



70 per cent, of official fee. 



SEND FOR SEARCH BLANKS. 



LIDKHKT Uf- tUNUKESS 



dl4 108 682 

TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST CO' 




55 LIBERTY ST.. NEW YORK. 



26 COURT ST., BROOKLYN-. 



CAPITAL PAID IN, 
SURPLUS, - 



$2,000,000 
44 1 ,293 



T K U « 'i' K B S : 

ORLANDO B. POTTER, C.EORGE G. WILLIAMS. 

WILLIAM M. INGRAHAM, KUGENK KKLIA', 

ALEXANDER E. ORR, JOHN T. MARIIN, 

JAMES D. LYNCH, JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 

WILLIAM II. MALE, HUGO WESENDONCK, 

CHARLES R. HENDERSON, JULIEN T. DAVIES, 

EMIL OELBERMANN, BENJAMIN D. HICKS, 

MARTIN JOOST, JOHN D. HICKS, 

ELLIS 1). WILLIAMS, SAMUEL T. FREEMAN, 

WILLIAM TRAUTWINE, CHARLES RICHARDSON, 

CHARLES MATLACK. 

JOHN \V. MURRAY. President. C. H. KELSEY. Vice-President. 

LOUIS WINDMULLER, Treasurer. 



FRANK BAILEY. Seeond Vice-President. 
LOUIS V. BRIGHT, Secretary. 

C O U N S K L : 
STEPHEN r. NASH, RICHARD INGRAHAM, 

GEORGE. F. DEMAREST, NEWELL MARTIN. 



